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Weaving together personal experience and wilderness lore, this poetic journey through Alaska and Alaskan history is “a potent map of love and loss and how we find our way back home through the landscape of the heart” (Terry Tempest Williams).

Alaska looms as the main character of this lyrically beautiful memoir that weaves together the author's personal experiences, the story of humankind's futile struggle to domesticate Alaska's timeless landscape, and the record of the many people who have disappeared forever in a quest to control and conquer this vast wilderness. 304 pp. Author publicity & national ads.

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Overview

Weaving together personal experience and wilderness lore, this poetic journey through Alaska and Alaskan history is “a potent map of love and loss and how we find our way back home through the landscape of the heart” (Terry Tempest Williams).

Alaska looms as the main character of this lyrically beautiful memoir that weaves together the author's personal experiences, the story of humankind's futile struggle to domesticate Alaska's timeless landscape, and the record of the many people who have disappeared forever in a quest to control and conquer this vast wilderness. 304 pp. Author publicity & national ads.

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Publishers Weekly
The loss of a colleague whose Cessna 340A disappeared between Yakutat and Juneau (an area known as Alaska's Bermuda Triangle) prompted the author to examine other disappearances in that vast state. A former editor of Alaska's Wildlife, poet Nickerson reaches back to early frontier Alaska, to the Russians, American missionaries, Sir John Franklin and subsequent polar expeditions, including those of Captain Bob Bartlett and Vilhjalmur Stefansson. She also meditates on another kind of loss-the disappearance of the shamans, language and culture of the natives and of the land's natural resources. Nickerson follows recent disappearances of hikers, climbers, tourists and adventurers (in 1991, the Coast Guard launched 1192 rescues, with 45 reported fatalities). These gripping stories of death and loss are deftly interwoven with reflections on the author's life in Alaska. Beautifully written, Disappearances gives us a sense of place not found in ordinary maps. Author tour. (Feb.)
Library Journal
Moved by the disappearance of a colleague, Nickerson (In the Compass of Unrest, Trout Creek, 1988), combines her own life story with brief accounts of other missing people within her home state of Alaska. The author draws her information from history books, personal anecdotes, records of missing persons, and her own diary entries. This broad spectrum of material brings both an eclectic and individual approach. One of the most striking features of the book is the author's flowing and descriptive prose as she covers such topics as exploration, indigenous people, and the unsettling reality surrounding missing persons. As much informative as it is a personal reflection of the author's life, this thought-provoking work encourages reflection in our own lives and our fragile place in the environment. For public libraries.-Jo-Anne Mary Benson, Osgoode, Ont.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780156004985
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Publication date: 4/1/1997
  • Pages: 304
  • Series: Harvest Book Series
  • Product dimensions: 5.02 (w) x 7.23 (h) x 0.86 (d)

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 24, 2007

    She knows Alaska and the human spirit

    To know Alaska means, for most, to know the ache of loss. When Nickerson lost a friend into the unknown, she had been in Alaska long enough to expect the endless wait, the hope against hope, the hunger for certainty that never comes. She writes of this uncommonly well. The landscape of Alaska and of the human psyche she treats with a geographer's precision and poet's sensibility, exploring the deeper truths that lie beneath the spectacular.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 30, 2002

    Great Alaskan book for Alaskans

    I found the book to be a very well-researched novel about the whole history of disappearance in Alaska, not simply one over-publicized incident written up by a more famous author. The book probably tends to be more enjoyable to people who have lived in the area described by the book and who know what the disappearance season is like, as opposed to armchair adventurors who want an action-packed tale through which to live vicariously.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 26, 2001

    Storyline disappears into boring personal details

    By the end of this book: a. The main story about her friend lost in a plane wreck was pretty-well forgotten, b. I'd read scores of pages concerning a few well-documented disappearances of a hundred years ago, c. I'd read more about the author's family than I ever wanted to know, none of which had anything to do with disappearances and little to do with Alaska, d. I'd read the same tired segues over and over. If you want to read about disappearances in Alaska, I'd recommend Jon Krakauer's 'Into the Wild'. At least Karakauer did some research and sticks to the subject.

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